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ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
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DOI: 10.1007/s10479-022-04611-9
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Multivariate forecasting; Proper scoring rules; Discrimination heuristic; Energy score; Variogram score
This article introduces the application of proper scoring rules in quantifying the accuracy of distribution forecasts, and compares the discrimination ability between energy score and three variogram scores through simulation study. The research design is more realistic, allowing for a comprehensive comparison of the performance of proper scoring rules in different settings.
Proper scoring rules are commonly applied to quantify the accuracy of distribution forecasts. Given an observation they assign a scalar score to each distribution forecast, with the lowest expected score attributed to the true distribution. The energy and variogram scores are two rules that have recently gained some popularity in multivariate settings because their computation does not require a forecast to have parametric density function and so they are broadly applicable. Here we conduct a simulation study to compare the discrimination ability between the energy score and three variogram scores. Compared with other studies, our simulation design is more realistic because it is supported by a historical data set containing commodity prices, currencies and interest rates, and our data generating processes include a diverse selection of models with different marginal distributions, dependence structure, and calibration windows. This facilitates a comprehensive comparison of the performance of proper scoring rules in different settings. To compare the scores we use three metrics: the mean relative score, error rate and a generalized discrimination heuristic. Overall, we find that the variogram score with parameter p = 0.5 outperforms the energy score and the other two variogram scores.
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